Margaret Williamson

Associate Professor of Classics, and of Comparative Literature

Departments and Programs Classics Comparative Literature Women's and Gender Studies Related Links http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/faculty/williamson.html

Contact Information

Email: margaret.williamson@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2036

Hinman Box: HB 6086

Education

• B.A. University of Cambridge; M.A. University of Toronto; University College, London; Kings College, London; Ph.D. University of London

Areas of Expertise

• Classical literature; women writers; Sappho; classical tradition

Selected Works

• The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece , with S. Blundell, (1998).
• ‘Eros the Blacksmith’, in Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self Representation in the Classical Tradition , L. Foxhall and J. B. Salmon (eds.), 1998.
• ‘Sappho and the Other Woman’, in Re-reading Sappho , E. Greene (ed.), (1996).
• ‘Sappho and the Other Woman’, [another version] in Language and Gender , S. Mills (ed.), 1995.
• Sappho’s Immortal Daughters , (1995).

Current Projects

• Reception of Greek lyric in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; classical tradition in the Caribbean